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shipmates.

Welcome back to On the Wind.

I'm your host, Andy Schell.

I've got an awesome episode today for you with Skip Novak, the legendary Skip Novak. Can't wait to share that with you. Before we get to that, I am, I was going to say writing, but I'm not writing. I'm talking. I'm talking to you from a very rainy Ellis, Sweden. I'm at the Halbergrassy Boatyard on Falcon. and we brought the boat down here yesterday.

Really cool to be back in the harbor. at Los Sweden. I'm at the Hallberg-Grassy Boatyard on Falcon. We brought the boat down here yesterday.

Really cool to be back in the Hallberg-Rassy factory. Me and I were first here,

it's probably almost 10 years ago for World Cruising Club. We had a booth here and got to know

Magnus Rassi. He's been on the podcast several times. And now we have Falcon in the show.

So those of you that came to the show this weekend, because this will come out after the show has already happened, thanks for being there. I hope we had a good time. As of right now, it's pouring down rain, and it's supposed to be gusting in the high 40s tomorrow night. So great boat show weather. We'll see if the real sailors actually make it out here.

A couple quick things to promote. Speaking of boat shows, we've got the Annapolis Boat Show coming up

quicker than I'm ready for. Me and Mia and Blue and Brady from Cruiser's Academy are teaming up to

do a joint workshop, half-day workshop and party. And also our very own August is going to be there. August

Sandberg, Skipper of East Bjorn, is going to be at the boat show in Annapolis for the first time ever.

We have a booth. Brady and Blue have a booth nearby hours. And of course, our workshop that we're

calling offshore cruising distilled the shit that matters most. We've sold some tickets to that. There's still some

available. It's going to be at Ramshead. It's a half day. Get you in and out. And then you can go to the boat show that afternoon. And then, of course, our Sailor's Social, the annual crew party that we have every year, which was a huge, huge fun last year. Those tickets are also available. All this is on 59-north.com slash boat show. So if you want to

join us in Annapolis, I highly recommend you get over there and buy tickets before they sell out.

And can't wait to see all of you back in our home port in the USA. So Skip Novak. He's become

sort of a mentor, like a lot of other people that I looked up to. He's given us access to his

ideas and he always answers my emails. We share a couple skippers. Chris Kobish works for us and

for Skip. And it's just been really cool to kind of pick his brain on stuff offline. I have a lot

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